Sacred landscape: bringing the seasons & nature into our work as practitioners (Southern Hemisphere) 

This is a five part event, registration is for all five parts.  If you are not able to attend one or more parts then they will be recorded and shared with everyone who has booked and paid (usually around five working days after the event). Each of the events mirrors the season in the northern or southern hemisphere.  Each event will be run twice, once for the Southern hemisphere and once for the Northern hemisphere.

This booking is for the Southern Hemisphere.  If you would like to book for the Northern Hemisphere please use this link

Watch a brief introduction to this online event here

Covid-19 and our climate crisis is inviting us all to recalibrate our appreciation of Mother Nature where ever we are in the world. We are finding in Mother Nature the resourcing, solace, and support we need to re-vitalise and rebalance our own meaning making inner ecology as we face into the myriad of challenges out in the world. Partnering with Nature and exploring the metaphor of each season as we experience it enables us to draw upon its qualities, essence, and symbolism for insight, discovery, creative reflection, and wisdom.

In this way we are attending both to our own inner ecology, growing our resilience, deepening our connections with all of life as we build our own capacities and reservoirs for working from the place of our deepest humanity with our clients in today’s ever changing and complex world.

The series will offer creative reflection and practical resources in an inter-active co-learning experience based on the  inspiration offered in the language of each of the seasons, season by season as we live them whether we live in either the northern or southern hemisphere. Living through the whole cycle will give you an opportunity to discover a new lens to bring fresh insight, new perspectives, and wisdom to revitalize and resource practitioners. The series has been inspired by Karyn Prentice’s book “Nature’s Way: Designing the Lives you want Through the Lens of Nature and the Five Seasons” with further material from Elaine Patterson’s book “Reflect to Create! The Dance of Reflection for Creative Leadership, Professional Practice and Supervision”. Karyn's book is available to purchase with this series at a discounted rate.

Here is a taster of what each season brings:

• Winter: an invitation into reflection, inspiration, deep listening, being still, finding grace
• Spring: an invitation into new beginnings, seeding and planting ideas, clear vision, emergence
• Summer: an invitation into ripening and maturing, passion and celebration, play, sharing goodwill
• Late summer: an invitation savouring and appreciating of what is, clarity, taking stock and harvesting our endeavors
• Autumn: an invitation for pruning, letting go, being grateful, and developing grit

There will be one webinar for each of the five season series over 12 months beginning in January starting with the season of Winter in the Northern Hemisphere and Summer in the Southern Hemisphere. Each webinar will provide you with ideas, exercises, poetry, and practices, which you can use for yourself and in your professional practice. And there is an open invitation to take the exploration outside and connect personally through themed reflective coach walks for yourself or with your clients.

This series is for coaches, supervisors, leaders, OD and HR specialists, and L&D practitioners and for anyone who is interested in enriching their practice and greening their work. The series is for anyone who works with other people who are on the frontiers of facilitating transition and change.  

Join this series where ever you live. Many EMCC members are global citizens living in a global village. Let us use the inspiring metaphoric bridge of nature as part of a repeating, continuous life cycle, finding a shared language, a shared communality and exploring our shared humanity which unites us all:  namely that we all share one earth and we all live in a landscape of one kind or another, whether it is green and grass filled or red and earthy or urban all the way, whether it is the wetlands or arid but which all needs our loving care as we face into the imperatives of our eco climate emergency where ever we live.  

'Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -   the assurance that dawn comes after night, and Spring comes after winter. ' Rachel Carson.

In this series you will :

1. Engage in the language and lens of Nature’s Five Seasons to enrich yourself as you deepen your work
2. Explore this metaphor helps you to refine and fine-tune your connection with Nature,
3. Help  nourish and align your inner ecology with the constant demands of  work and life as you help your clients to do the same
4. Connect energetically in different ways to the questions we are holding, and how because of this we can dare to bring fresh thinking to ourselves and our work
5. Understand how the five seasons cycle can show up within a project or in a single day a well as in nature outdoors how you can work with this to promote insight and wisdom
6. Discover a new portfolio of questions and exercises for creative reflection for you to adapt to your client and organisational work.

 Bonus Benefits include:

• Have six Mini Field Books with materials you can use for yourself or with clients including coaching question that draws on each season’s particular essence, qualities and flavour.
• Be encouraged  to get outside when possible and learn by experimenting in your own time, space and needs as you walk
• Connect to a deeper appreciation of the beauty of our planet and our personal responsibility in helping to protect our environment for future generations
• Have a healthy, low cost, enriched experience with your environment to the  betterment of you and your health.

The Mini Field Guides (workbooks) will also have material additional to Karyn’s book “Nature’s Way: Designing the Lives you want Through the Lens of Nature and the Five Seasons” which has inspired this series.

About the presenters: 

We are Elaine Patterson and Karyn Prentice and together we are the international award winning PattersonPrenticeDesigns. We are a unique design partnership bringing our shared love of the arts, nature, creativity, reflection and writing to the worlds of Executive Reflection, Coaching Supervision, Leadership and Professional Practice. Together, we design and host uniquely heart-based, soulful and somatic creative reflective learning experiences both on line and in beautiful places across the world both indoors and in green spaces.  

We are also published writers writing specialising in creative reflection and coaching supervision. Karyn’s book is called “Nature’s Way - Designing the Life Your Want through Nature and the Five Seasons” and Elaine book is called “Reflect to Create! The Dance of Reflection for Creative Leadership, Supervision and Professional Practice”. 

Since October 2019 we have co-led the delivery of the Coaching Supervision Academy International’s Diploma in Coaching Supervision in London and we have just launched our new EMCC Global Accredited Level 5 flagship Diploma called Cultivating and Choreographing the Rich Tapestry of Whole Hearted Creativity” which is a virtual 12 month inquiry to re-Source You to re-Vitalise your Practice.

'If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted like trees'. Rainier Marie Rilke